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SHAKE-UP Will Cox and his wife, Lynn Van Lith, prepare to leave his childhood home. Their daughters, Margot, left, and Matilda, help out.
By SARAH KERSHAW
Published: February 25, 2010
IN the nine years since he came to New York with $500 in his pocket, Martin-Christopher Harper estimates that he has moved at least 40 times.
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Doug LeBow, whose co-op board has rejected three buyers for his one-bedroom on 11th Street and Broadway, said he felt “imprisoned.”
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When he lists the neighborhoods he has lived in — in chronological order — he sounds like a bartender reciting a long list of microbrews: “Brooklyn, Chelsea Hotel for a moment, Bronx, Carroll Gardens, Crown Heights, Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Greenpoint, Chelsea, Crown Heights, Carroll Gardens, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, Williamsburg, East Williamsburg ...”
Mr. Harper, 32, a hairstylist, moved to New York from Los Angeles, where he still has a share in an apartment. He says he moves a lot because he is always looking for a better deal, a better space, a better neighborhood. He acknowledges, though, that moving is something of a compulsion, and that aft
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